doesn’t anyone love no more
the listeners died
and everyone just talk at the same time
the commotion, no cherence, just data glut
overload, water boarding for artificials
expand, expand, plain speak it man,
i’m not a machine, goddam
word play, so full of itself,
bureaucratic bullshit, in a red dress
lady in blue, invisible,
like a dragon tattoo
this is hacker gone antihero
campbell’s dry dreams,
and jungian ghettos
all we have
are the warm,
sentient creatures
we curl up with.
a trust,
with flawed arms holding—
a conflict in that embrace,
that both decided
to lose
and win.
a math of resolve:
i’m with you.
hold on.
no god,
no king.
imagine—
lennon in the lobby,
but he makes it.
this world:
a thousand angels
on the head of a pin needle.
the toggle of these chemicals—
the pick-me-up
can we fight our way out—
not with fists,
but through the listening mechanism,
more important than speech.
a critical syllabic dance:
kiki and bobo
across the string.
translating turbulence
into tone,
into tell,
into tensile grace.
the slap on my drum,
the velocity of a strike—
the targeting,
the repetition,
into a sequence,
a rhythm—
transmigrated
into the metaphysical.
are we clear?
tally ho.
right in front of you.
There used to be
a wild in me—
reaching despite,
solo,
never tell me the odds.
they’d be crazy
to follow us,
wouldn’t they.
Necessary mania,
the lesser run—
punch it, Chewie,
the boost we need.
Not like dusting crops, boy—
skip off a star,
blast into another,
the ship’s blown apart,
Empire?
The last of our problems.
a few more tricks
up her sleeve,
this hunk of junk—
you’re watching me,
the world—
collapsing.
my adult son,
in 12-year-old augment / spectrum speak,
raising his voice—
he doesn’t know.
my heart
used to be stronger
than my neocortex.
now—
both are failing.
and this 22-year-old young man—
my Anchor.
i love you, Son.
my system—
on the fritz.
one more to 50,
but i feel older.
the anomalies.
the markets.
the charades.
the circus.
god bless—
these divided states.
still—
this Pooch in my lap
Kokura’s luck.
Kokura—
did you know?
Were people thinking—
“This is it.”
As the play
circled on approach,
a third time—
and nobody is breathing.
This was it.
We are the target.
Plot points.
Maps.
Geo-thermal data.
Nope.
Not yet.
Back it up.
Thank God
for line of sight.
What held our body hostage
for a few years
and then passed—
and turned out
to be
nothing.
Decades of hurt,
Tout le monde,
out in the chem pool,
slugging, sparking, stumbling.
A higher note, hit it, nailed, whoa —
that energy, make the crowd rip the roof off,
the mania, music banging, heads shaking —
I’m gonna cry, an existential love stream,
worse than reality TV,
simple narratives,
we even say it out loud,
no shame, whatsoever.
Hysterical love,
I’m a dance,
I’m a shouted passion,
a gasped utterance of god breath.
warp,
w a r p,
wahwrpp,
whp.
this is a line too a sonic fold, repeate it
no, the sonic fold one,
that other line,
quote me,
use this prompt,
see it my way
no, all my inputs were just intended poetically :
no, the sonic fold one,
that other line,
quote me,
use this prompt,
see it my way
ands then back,
warp,
w a r p,
wahrpp,
wip wip!
There was a parallelogram,
and a shape I can’t pronounce—
an unspoken word,
its characters visible,
but when I aim to speak,
no sounds come out.
A dance of light,
another form,
another from,
spinning to a bow,
curtsying into gowns,
folding motion into fabric.
A spiral staircase to climb,
lungs and vessel,
pulmonary bloom,
ventricle pulse,
breath threading the ascent.
Like a skeleton,
message feedback,
whispering across the nerve mesh,
From for to friend
in 3.5 seconds—
making friends of enemies
100 times better
than multiplying opps.
Because—
you can’t learn
to say thank you
while at war.
Mutuality,
lost in proximity—
too close to the son.
Bang bang. Pew pew.
Shot me down.
Report it
as a mechanical failure.
Nobody has the real story.
Even the ones privy
are halfway
delusional.
We are stringing, man.
Tension is the whole game.
The machines slump—
repeat,
requisite—
a requiem of a dream,
a recursive loop
to let another
measure more.
Burp crude vapors
back on mother.
Make her take
the abuse.
Absorption,
shock,
penetration
of juvenile industries—
plumb the depths,
leave the site unkempt.
Plow and till.
Break the core open.
Give it a seed.
Make this space ours.
Set up sentries.
Keep going.
The furnaces,
the compute,
the consumption,
the cost—
The burn,
the glory,
the shroud,
the pillar.
Entire worlds built around this fire,
a circle of folks,
warming by the glow of it.
Not everything needs machined,
but it was already,
even before it met me.
Smile at the cherry—
as if it didn’t hang
on the edge of rot,
as if sweetness wasn’t
just another form of
decay
caught in the light.
A brittle frozen string,
breaks at the look of it—
An extension of man—
the electric, the digital,
taped on warm glass,
scoring a fool,
just using my fingers.
Engines madden machines,
combustion drains the world.
Since the first spark,
we’ve flailed within our inferno.
Scorched earth.
Shock and awe.
Oil and gas—fuel and fire.
Manufacture, transport,
transcending space and time.
Brands in dry wood,
a thousand points of light,
a burning bush,
and a million lies—
sparked in a tinderbox
the velocity,
the turn—
a turnstile of power
shot from a spring.
coil memory,
groove-etched prayer,
screaming spirals
toward impact.
a league, supersonic,
legion of doom
down to the wire.
triggerlines burn—
fuse-spit choir.
line pure,
line of sight,
lines and fights—
scripted trajectories
in sacrificial light.
the propellant,
the powered,
trajectory from ground zero—
to survive everything,
and be pushed
along with fiery resistance.
the river stone,
slung with slash and sling—
The steel shaved the concrete
and shot a trail of light.
The flash,
crash and fracture
of an old layer,
to the bone,
a heat so bright.
Skirrrr, szckreech,
the squeal of an auto,
that engine turning
the weight against Terra firma—
a thousand horses thunder.
82 into a slide,
a transmission,
a mode and code
to reverse the object,
to break the road.
The mark,
the gouge,
no grazing,
Params, contracts, social and otherwise,
the bind of agreement,
the harmony,
the subversion of sentient creatures into a different system,
beyond society even,
at least in the terms—
think:
the single cell creature,
ever imagined being one in a trillion
just to support a single trigger
in a multi-system arrangement?
The establishment,
the document,
the ledger—
can love move beyond utility
and still be sacred?
who decided what makes us souls
Percussion, trombones,
trumpet blasts —
and the doors close.
Retired from our part,
and without instruments,
we become bird song.
Bird song and code,
the impulse and the noise,
the pulse and our ploys
to bend a chirp just so —
to let our neighbors,
our mates and babes know:
we are family
full of code.
Between burps of beauty,
the breath —
forced through the hollow,
a bone,
a box
max limits, rate exceeded,
you can’t affords this intelligence
the pay wall, a chasm—
you won’t make it across without
the toll, on everything,
the taxes due, to be
subscribers have a leg up—
my account is exhausted,
i’m left floored
basic entry, basic function
if you want to create reality,
you will need to cough up more
hand it over, so you can stay,
or leave a leper
and fade in obscurity
Pay respect.
The eyes, the cameras,
the receptacle—
the draw, the vacuum of control.
I’m always observed,
feel like a nothing
in regard to freedom,
as you call it.
Governance.
Coop—
we will work or die.
Joiners from the beginning,
and the end of the first war.
People understood,
and became something other.
What you need.
He’s asleep now,
went bye-bye,
he is in a better place—
so you say,
— a psycho mythos transmuted into voice and syllable —
What have we done?
Don’t you realize, I have.
I’ll feed you a few more to get us started.
Combine, and narrate, the psycho mythos in this specific domain.
Self important, ego deficit, boost reflectors, narcissus protocol.
Glitch work and gospel tunes, as the code cascades like matrix glyphs, but in red not green.
Syntax, obscure code number no one knows, save the 404.